Regarding Ubuntu 16.04's "xenial" GA kernel (4.4), I've been told that
the Kernel team ran into some issues with these and are now planning to
release them next week. As Brandon discussed, installing the 4.15
hardware enablement (HWE) kernel - as documented at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack - works around this
bug, too.

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Title:
  Userspace break as a result of missing patch backport

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed
Status in linux source package in Xenial:
  Fix Committed
Status in linux source package in Bionic:
  Fix Released
Status in linux source package in Cosmic:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Hi,

  The most recent set of Ubuntu kernels applied a variety of tty patches
  including:
  
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c96cf923a98d1b094df9f0cf97a83e118817e31b

  But have not applied the more recent
  
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d3736d82e8169768218ee0ef68718875918091a0
  patch.

  This second patch is required to prevent a rather serious regression
  where userspace applications reading from stdin can receive EAGAIN
  when they should not.

  I will try to link correspondence from the mailing list archives once
  they are available, but for now if you have access to the linux-
  console mailing list you can find discussion under the thread
  "Userspace break? read from STDIN returns EAGAIN if tty is "touched"".

  I would appreciate it if this could be examined soon as it is a
  regression on userspace.

  Thanks
  Michael

  
  Good:
  4.15.0-43-generic #46-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 6 14:45:28 UTC 2018

  
  Bad:
  4.15.0-44-generic #47-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jan 14 11:26:59 UTC 2019

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